- Hanuma Vihari is one of those Indian batsmen who did not get many opportunities to show his abilities in Team India. He did play matches for India but could not secure his place in the team. Now he has done that feat…
Hanuma Vihari: Hanuma Vihari is one of those Indian batsmen who did not get many opportunities to show his abilities in Team India. He has played matches for India. But he did not get proper opportunities. If he had had the right opportunities for India, he could have performed very well. Because he is an excellent player of Test cricket. This can be estimated by watching the match against Odisha in the Ranji Trophy, in which he not only batted on the field for 682 minutes but also scored a triple century.
Hanuma Vihari batted steadily for 682 minutes

Source: ESPN Cricinfo
Actually, Hanuma Vihari’s bat created a storm while captaining Andhra Pradesh in the 2017 Ranji Trophy. He made his name in the headlines by playing a captaincy innings against Odisha. In this match, he scored a triple century by coming at number three. Looking at his long innings, it can be estimated that Hanuma spent 682 minutes on the field. If we look at his overall performance, he scored an unbeaten 302 runs facing 456 balls.

He surprised everyone by scoring an unbeaten 302 runs.
Hanuma Vihari hit 2 skyscraper sixes and 29 fours in his 302-run innings, which kept him firm. Due to him, the Andhra team managed to score 584 runs. However, the match was drawn. But the name of Hanuma, who played a long innings of 302 runs, made a lot of headlines. These figures show that Hanuma is a proper Test batsman. But this batsman has been out of Team India for a long time. He last played a match for India in 2022. Since then he has been dropped.
He performed like this for Team India.
If we look at Hanuma Vihari’s record while playing matches for Team India, it is good. He has scored 839 runs in 16 Test matches so far. These include one century and five half-centuries. He also has 5 wickets in Test cricket. His three half-centuries on foreign soil have come in England, New Zealand, and West Indies. The only century was scored on West Indies soil